Professionals who work in the service field often have to juggle several tasks at once. Service techs have to make sales presentations and deal with customer service and still fix the problem they were hired for. They’re basically a one-man show that travels from site to site, the ultimate multi-tasker, with so many projects and phone calls to handle that a person can’t help but wonder how most even survive each day. But there’s something out there to help these guys out with their busy life. By working in the cloud, contractors and techs can gain an extra pair of arms to make each day count.
When your techs show up to a job they bring their toolbox and a bulky laptop. Their hands are extremely full. Everything they need to know is on that computer but it takes minutes to load, and they have to be on the phone at the same time talking to the office. If a problem should arise, they may have to leave the site and only return after obtaining the information or ordering the parts that they need. Then what happens if there are errors in that information? They have to head back again to the office. The tech wastes gas and the client wastes time. No one’s a winner here.
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HP Forms New Cloud Unit
HP has hired Margaret Dawson out of Symform to be VP of product
marketing and cloud evangelist for HP Cloud Services, a new start-up unit
inside HP.
She claims that “much of the negative hype reported around HP does not
match reality. HP has a strong foundation to compete and win in the cloud
and is building out the right leadership team, ecosystem, cloud platform and
solutions to escalate that process.”
It’s unclear how many people will believe her.
Data Optimization in Cloud Storage
The promise of “the cloud” is that cloud storage delivers users seamless “just in time” storage scalability to handle growth and quickly respond to peak loads. The economics and business impact of cloud storage also delivers a compelling financial proposition in today’s budget constrained IT environments. To the IT consumer shifting what was a capital expense and a fixed cost to a variable cost operating expense is financially compelling. Additionally, the ability to function in a “just in time” mode versus a “predictive” model for consumable storage also changes the CAPEX impact further assisting in justifying an already strong value proposition for adopting cloud storage.
IDC forecasts that cloud-based storage will represent a $15.6B market by 2015 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 32%. They also predict 10,000 service providers will focus on cloud storage with a data protection emphasis. The economics of this market transition will continue to evolve and accelerate as costs of delivering cloud services are optimized by service providers that become more efficient – ever mindful of the cost of their plant/facility, operating expenses and business margins.
Skyera Inc. Named “Bronze Sponsor” of Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that Skyera Inc., an emerging provider of enterprise solid-state storage systems, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Skyera Inc. is an emerging provider of enterprise solid-state storage systems designed to enable a large class of applications with extraordinarily high performance, exceptionally lower power consumption and cost effectiveness relative to existing enterprise storage systems. Founded by the executives who previously developed the world’s most-advanced flash memory controller, Skyera is backed by key technology and financial partnerships designed to position it at the forefront of the hyper growth in the solid-state storage sector. The company was featured in the Gartner report “Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2012,” was chosen by Flash Memory Summit as a Best of Show award winner for 2012 in the category of Most Innovative Flash Memory Enterprise Business Application, and won the Visionary Product Award at Storage Visions, 2013.
Private Cloud Without Internet Connectivity
Back in 2007, the title of this article probably didn’t make any sense. The cloud was a diagram to represent the Internet. Cloud Services == Services from the Internet.
Now, when someone told you they need a private cloud solution without
Private Cloud Without Internet Connectivity
Back in 2007, the title of this article probably didn’t make any sense. The cloud was a diagram to represent the Internet. Cloud Services == Services from the Internet.
Now, when someone told you they need a private cloud solution without
Software Development, the Cloud, & SYOD
As I continue to meander through the early stages of our software-development project, I’ve encountered a large measure of scope creep. Scope jog or scope sprint might be a more accurate term. What started as a modest, internal workflow project has been intertwined with a more ambitious, external content delivery system.
One company, one vision, two seemingly unrelated projects. As I’ve written before, we’re hosting and streaming content for the content system from the cloud, with one of the big public vendors. Separately, our internal data workflows are also being considered for the cloud, but we’ve been stopped dead in our tracks by concerns about Vendor Lock-in 2.0 in this case.
We don’t mind being locked into a vendor to handle what may be terabytes of data from the external project’s customers, but we fear lock-in of our modest amount of internal data.
However we proceed, we’re also not concerned about performance per se. Content is flowing freely without noticeable delay on the external project, and the internal project won’t be in anything nearing real-time.
However, we proceed with some trepidation about delivering content from the external system in venue-level performances. That is, we are building what may be a next-generation social-media company, with content flowing through our website but also in specific live performances in venues ranging from 20 people to 1,000.
It is in this area where we are losing sleep. We are delivering sound, pictures, and video in the external project, and are now looking at any number of alternatives in doing it in the venues. We started by building a rather massive, rack-mounted PC and AV system. It’s powerful, but heavy and expensive, and includes lots of hardwiring to projectors, HDTVs, and cameras. We’re now looking at what can be achieved on a laptop, but also on a tablet or phone, perhaps using Bluetooth 4.0 to send data throughout the venues.
These are not cloud-related issues, but they are certainly mobile and BYOD issues – and we are in any case relying on transmitting our data from our massive, cloud-based resource.
So here we are, with what is verifiably a small business with a small staff and budget, yet tackling complex issues that on the one hand scream for a unified approach but on the other will require several hardware and services vendors.
Oh, and in our rollout later this year, we’ll be serving our own devices (SYOD) to our customers as well. Our massive system comes in any color you want as long as it’s black, and we may have to settle on a single vendor for the OS and tablet as well.
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Software Development, the Cloud, & SYOD
As I continue to meander through the early stages of our software-development project, I’ve encountered a large measure of scope creep. Scope jog or scope sprint might be a more accurate term. What started as a modest, internal workflow project has been intertwined with a more ambitious, external content delivery system.
One company, one vision, two seemingly unrelated projects. As I’ve written before, we’re hosting and streaming content for the content system from the cloud, with one of the big public vendors. Separately, our internal data workflows are also being considered for the cloud, but we’ve been stopped dead in our tracks by concerns about Vendor Lock-in 2.0 in this case.
We don’t mind being locked into a vendor to handle what may be terabytes of data from the external project’s customers, but we fear lock-in of our modest amount of internal data.
However we proceed, we’re also not concerned about performance per se. Content is flowing freely without noticeable delay on the external project, and the internal project won’t be in anything nearing real-time.
However, we proceed with some trepidation about delivering content from the external system in venue-level performances. That is, we are building what may be a next-generation social-media company, with content flowing through our website but also in specific live performances in venues ranging from 20 people to 1,000.
It is in this area where we are losing sleep. We are delivering sound, pictures, and video in the external project, and are now looking at any number of alternatives in doing it in the venues. We started by building a rather massive, rack-mounted PC and AV system. It’s powerful, but heavy and expensive, and includes lots of hardwiring to projectors, HDTVs, and cameras. We’re now looking at what can be achieved on a laptop, but also on a tablet or phone, perhaps using Bluetooth 4.0 to send data throughout the venues.
These are not cloud-related issues, but they are certainly mobile and BYOD issues – and we are in any case relying on transmitting our data from our massive, cloud-based resource.
So here we are, with what is verifiably a small business with a small staff and budget, yet tackling complex issues that on the one hand scream for a unified approach but on the other will require several hardware and services vendors.
Oh, and in our rollout later this year, we’ll be serving our own devices (SYOD) to our customers as well. Our massive system comes in any color you want as long as it’s black, and we may have to settle on a single vendor for the OS and tablet as well.
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Google Cloud Ventures – Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
To best capture the primary value of Cloud Computing I always recommend looking at the scenario of a new entrepreneur launching their online business.
The Cloud has made entrepreneurism itself more accessible to more people, lowering the barrier to entry by lowering the costs it takes to launch a new online venture by a magnitude, while simultaneously improving the quality of the apps you can produce, and how quickly you can produce them.
Combined with the continuing explosion of online users and how much they grow their daily use of social media, e-commerce etc., this is a massively potent combination.
Dell’s Leveraged Buyout Meets Resistance
Southeastern Asset Management Inc., Dell’s biggest stockholder next to
its founder with an 8.5% piece of the action, said Friday that it’s violently
opposed to the leveraged buyout Dell’s board has agreed to.
The deal would see the company knocked down for $24.4 billion, a sum that
works out to $13.65 a share.